Pilot project will now be expanded throughout the town
The Town of Fort Erie has been awarded for its wastewater innovation.
The town recently won the PitcH20 competition, which is an innovation contest held at the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative annual conference.
Fort Erie's Flexliner pilot project was victorious, a method that created watertight barriers at the bottom of maintenance holes, to stop groundwater from getting in and wastewater from leaking out.
Through an expansion of the project, the Flexliner program will prevent up to 5,500 cubic meters of groundwater from entering the wastewater system annually.